Chapter 40

PATSY POV:

Maybe Baron is just extremely good with people, and that’s why he’s so successful. Maybe he was right about Harry, and he is just the lesser of two evils. That still doesn’t explain why he thought he could do what he did to me.

But he was trying to teach me some kind of lesson. Not to prance around in front of him with skimpy clothes on? Or not to hang out with guys? Sure, maybe I was doing the first one on purpose to annoy him, but not to…” get his dick hard” as he said. And why can’t I hang out with a guy my own age who’s interested in me?

God. I feel so emotionally manipulated. It’s like I’m standing on a tightrope over a stormy ocean and one wrong step will send me tumbling into the sea, never to be seen again.

I climb into bed, take several deep breaths, and tell myself to forget about him. He may have owned my body, but I won’t let him own my mind. But try as I might, Baron invades my mind like a virus. Every thought is of him. Last night’s incident replays in my mind